I know, I know. You’re itching to travel. That’s what you do for pleasure and for fun, and not being able to do your “thing” is making you crazy. Well, it’s driving me up the wall, too. Furthermore, by the time everything is back to . . . well . . . to normal, I’m…
I’ll wager that a year or two from now, an objective analysis will show that what Amtrak is doing with the long-distance trains during this pandemic might possibly have made their bottom line look better, but would also have come at the expense of literally millions of Americans who live in less populated areas outside…
During the worst days of the coronavirus, people were avoiding crowds, which meant they weren’t traveling. As a consequence, ridership on Amtrak’s long-distance trains dropped to around 15% of capacity, which was pretty awful, of course. Nevertheless, those trains continued to operate daily, although with fewer coaches and sleepers. . But now, in this moment-in-time,…